The Cool Car Competition is just around the corner, and everyone is busy getting their cars looking as wicked as possible. There's just one problem: things keep disappearing in a puff of smoke! Well, a puff of dirty exhaust fumes from a rusty brown car . . . But what could the thief want with cool shiny wheels and pots of paint from the orphanage? Rastamouse has a hunch - and a cunning plan to prove it. But with the Cool Car Competition looming, the race is on to bring the culprit to justice before it's too late!

Following on from the success of PIRATE RIDDIMS and MARATHON MYSTERY, this bright, colourful storybook is based on one of the episodes from the hit BAFTA-nominated TV series.

This book is part of a book series called Rastamouse Series .

There are 24 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2013 by Pan Macmillan .

Genevieve Webster studied Graphics and Illustration at Canterbury and Norwich Schools of Art before moving to London in 1988. She has worked in children's books for over twenty years. It was Genevieve's passion for language and dialect and her love of Caribbean culture that inspired her to co-create Rastamouse. Michael de Souza left his native Trinidad to join his parents in London in 1960. He has spent most of the last fifteen years teaching swimming, and it was his love of teaching and working with children that inspired Michael to pursue a career in writing.